boogying

variants also boogeying
present participle of boogie

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boogying
Verb
  • According to onlookers, the Wicked star was bopping along the entire set.
    Stacy Lambe, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The first violins unfurl a lilting, lightly bopping tune in D minor.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In it, a monster with bolts in his head and a shuffling gate was created by a man.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The closures have resulted in staff shuffling throughout the library system and rescheduled activities such as author talks and photography exhibits.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Portraying the ghost of Hamlet’s father at the play’s debut, his face and body covered in chalky white paint, his Shakespeare steps through the looking glass and becomes his own tragic player, strutting and fretting his hour upon the stage.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Anyier Anei is Ada, a newbie model from South Sudan by way of Kenya, wide-eyed and hungry as she’s tossed into a maelstrom of haughty men and clubgoing sisters in strutting.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Boogying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boogying. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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